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The average US citizen emits about 17.5 metric tons.
And right now that means we're taking between 80 and 90 million metric tons out of the sea every year.
What you're talking about is something between 20 and 30 million metric tons of wild creatures that are taken from the ocean and used and ground up.
The fish that represent a huge part of that 20 to 30 million metric tons.
If we do, 30 million metric tons of seafood, a third of the world catch, stays in the water.
There's no point doing this at all unless you're shipping at least a metric ton." (Laughter) (Applause) He said, "What do you do for a living?"
It happens gradually, along a metric known as the Norwood Scale, which describes the severity of hair loss.
That crash happened due to an error in converting between two measurement systems, U.S. customary units and their S.I, or metric, equivalence.
And the new metric system was, in the words of the Marquis de Condorcet, "For all people, for all time."
When Napoléon Bonaparte took power, he allowed small businesses to use traditional measurements redefined in metric terms.
But the metric system remained standard for formal use, and it spread across the continent, along with France's borders.
After Portugal and the Netherlands switched to metric voluntarily, other nations followed, with colonial empires spreading the system around the world.
But over the next two centuries, the British Empire slowly transitioned, first approving the metric system as an optional alternative before gradually making it offical.
The United States of America stuck with the English units of its colonial past and today remains one of only three countries which haven't fully embraced the metric system.
And ironically, some regard the once revolutionary metric system as a symbol of global conformity.
Nevertheless, the metric system is almost universally used in science and medicine, and it continues to evolve according to its original principles.
And just as it arose from a political revolution, the metric system remains crucial for the scientific revolutions to come.
And since then, we've taken 7.9 million miles off the roads and we've taken 1.4 thousand metric tons of CO2 out of the air.
Jefferson's sloth, Megalonyx, weighed about a ton, and that was small compared to megatherium, which could reach six metric tons, as much as an elephant.
Certainly, modern society is hard on the human psyche by every metric that we have.
And yet, Laura's approach to leadership was really formed in the technocratic world, and it was purely metric driven.
Givers are overrepresented at the bottom and at the top of every success metric that I can track.
The federal standards are that you have to score below a 1,000 to be an approved car seat on this crash, in some metric of units which are not important.
The global stockpile of highly enriched uranium is about 1,300, at the low end, to about 2,100 metric tons.
When a black hole reaches about 230 metric tons, it’ll have only one more second to live.
Human actions are now releasing 9.4 billion metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere, from activities such as burning fossil fuels and intensive agricultural practices, and other ways we change the way we use land, including deforestation.
Here's where the soil comes in: there is about three thousand billion metric tons of carbon in the soil.
And when permafrost thaws and drains, it makes it possible for microbes to come in and rather quickly decompose all this carbon, with the potential to release hundreds of billions of metric tons of carbon into the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases.
You certainly would save some money, and in addition to that, according to some calculations done by Procter and Gamble, if all households in the US were to do the laundry in cold water, we would save the emissions of 32 metric tons of CO2 each year.
It was 23 metric tons for one liter.
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